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Source: Who's who in the Pacific Southwest: a compilation of authentic
biographical sketches of citizens of Southern California and Arizona.
Los Angeles: Times-Mirror Print. & Binding House, 1913, 406 pgs.
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Cal. Commandery, Military Order of
Foreign Wars; served as judge advocate
and vice-commander of same; member
Soc. of Colonial Wars in California;
served as dir., first historian and
chancellor of same; dir. and treas. of Cal.
Soc. of Sons of Revolution, 1894-1911,
vice-pres. of same, 1911; pres. of same,
1912-14; dir. vice-pres. Murphy Oil Co.,
Whittier, Cal.; dir. City and County
Bank, Los Angeles. Member Southwestern
Soc. Archaeological Inst. of America;
Natl. Geographic Soc.; Los Angeles
Bar Assn. since organization; California
State Bar Assn.; American Bar Association;
Masonic fraternity; Knights Templar;
Shrine; New York State Soc.
of So. Cal.; Union League Club;
charter member and dir. two terms of
Jonathan Club. Presbyterian.
LEE, Charles Hamilton.
Hydraulic engineer. Res. 1909 Oxley St.,
So. Pasadena; office 934 Union Oil Bldg..
Los Angeles, Cal. Born in Oakland,
Cal., Feb. 1, 1883; son of Rev.
Hamilton Lee and Genevieve (Littlejohn)
Lee. Married to Katherine Newhall
in 1911. Attended grammar and high
schools, Berkeley, Cal.; graduated
from College of Civil Engineering,
Univ. of Cal., B. S., 1905.
Hydrographer with Water Resources Branch
of U. S. Geological Survey, gauging
streams throughout Cal., 1905-06;
moved to Los Angeles, Cal., 1906;
with engineering staff of Los Angeles
Aqueduct, first as intrument man,
later as asst. engineer; part of the
time in charge of water supply inves-
tigations in Owens Valley, in co-oper-
ation with U. S. Geological Survey,
1906-12; with Cal. State Conservation
Commission in charge of underground
water investigations in So. Cal., 1912;
hydraulic engineer in private prac-
tice, making specialty of water supply
problem, particularly underground
water, 1912 to date; has represented
Cuyamaca Water Co. and Sweetwater
Co. of San Diego, in rate fixing cases
before State Railroad Commission;
has been retained by various corpora-
tions and government bureaus on
water supply problems. Author: Water
Supply Paper 294 of U. S. Geological
Survey, entitled "An Intensive Study
of the Water Resources of a Part of
Owens Valley, California"; also of
public reports for Los Angeles
Aqueduct and California State
Conservation Commission; numerous
technical articles in engineering
periodicals. Associate member American
Soc. Civil Engineers; member American
Water Works Assn.; National Geographic
Soc.; Sierra Club; Los Angeles
Chamber of Commerce; Kappa Sigma
fraternity.
LEE, Clarence Herbert.
Accountant. Res. Claremont, Cal.; office
125 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, Cal. Born
in Wis., Jan. 25, 1862; son of David
D. and Julia E. (Longley) Lee. Mar-
ried to Mabel Allen in 1892. Attended
public school of Wis., 1877; Cobden,
Ill., 1879; graduated from Pawnee
Academy, Pawnee City, Neb., 1880;
from Cornell Univ., B. S., 1889.
Teacher in public schools of Pawnee
City, Neb., 1881; bookkeeper for
White Lake Lumber Co., Pawnee
City, Neb., 1881-88; office secy.
International Committee, Y. M. C. A.,
New York City, 1890-91; bookkeeper
Commercial Mining Co., Prescott, Ariz.,
1891-92; bookkeeper Pomona Land &
Water Co., Pomona, Cal., 1891-95;
member firm of Paine & Lee, Pomona,
Cal., 1895-99; city clerk, 1896-
98; bookkeeper and secy. Fidelity
Savings & Loan Assn., 1899 to date;
dir. and treas. California Orange
Growing & Distributing Co.; pres.
Economic Club, 1901; vice-pres.
Social Purity League, 1909 to date.
Congregationalist.
LEE, Donald M.
Automobiles. Res. Los Angeles; office
1220 S. Main St., Los Angeles, Cal. Born
in Lansing, Mich., Aug. 12, 1884; son of
Herbert A. and Sadie (Musgrave) Lee. Mar-
ried to Etta Stewart in 1904. Edu-
cated in the public schools of Chicago
and Northwestern Academy, from
which he graduated in 1907. Imme-
diately after leaving school moved
to Detroit, Mich., and went to work
as a clerk in a wholesale dry groods
house; moved to Seattle, Wash., in
1898, and engaged in the lumber,
timber and shingle business; remained in
this business until 1902, when he sold
his business and was appointed gen-
eral agent for the Cadillac
Manufacturing Co., with headquarters in
Seattle; in addition to this work he di-
rected the agencies in Tacoma and
Portland. Opened offices in Los
Angeles in 1904 and in 1908 opened
branch office in Pasadena, Cal. Member
Annandale Country, and Automobile clubs,
Los Angeles; Automobile Club of So. Cal.;
Cal. State Automobile Assn.
LEE, Henry Thomas.
Lawyer. Res. Los Angeles, Cal.; office
American Bank Bldg., Los Angeles, Cal.
Born in Glencove, Long Island, N. Y.,
July 28, 1840; son of Thomas Rathbone
[and Mary (Rankin) Lee. Married to
Josephine Mason Moir in 1877.]
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